Deutsche Welle’s Director-General, Erik Bettermann, has appointed Grahame Lucas (51) Head of the South Asia Service of DW-Radio. Lucas is responsible for radio programming in Hindi, Urdu and Bengali as well as for regionalised English language programming for Asia as a whole. “Asia is one of the priorities in Deutsche Welle’s strategic planning at the present time. By putting the responsibility for our programming to this region in the hands of one person we have strengthened our commitment to a part of the world which is developing very quickly indeed”, says Bettermann.
Lucas, who took over his new responsibilities at the start of the year, has been with Germany’s international broadcaster since 1983. He was born in London but also has German nationality. At Deutsche Welle he has held editorial positions in the Central News Service and the English Service for North America before becoming political correspondent in Bonn for both radio and television.
After a period as Deutsche Welle correspondent in Brussels Lucas returned to DW’s broadcasting house in Cologne in 2000 as Head of News and Current Affairs in the English Service of DW-Radio. He was also responsible for the regional programming for Asia and Africa. He became Deputy Head of the English Service in 2001.
(Source: Deutsche Welle/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)
